September 04, 2003
We had a great time at the WWUG meeting here in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (even though we were left off the map at the start of the preso :( Anyway, here are my top 5 highlights of the evening:
6) The organizers (Grant, Michael and I), and a few other lucky people got a cool beaded necklace with a Flash logo (can you spell computer geek?) provided to us by a local bead necklace manufacturer (beado.com I think). He approached MM with them, so maybe you'll be able to get one too in the future.
5) The fact that just as soon as the presentation started, we were prompted to download the latest version of Flash Player. Stupid player upgrades ;)
4) Seeing Chris Stans do his victory "dance" when his name was called for the Studio MX 2004 giveaway. It figures...the "Adobe guy" wins the MM prize.
3) Breeze Live - That was one sweet presentation UI. It was cool to be able to type in questions and have them answered as the presentation was going on (although there seemed to be a question about every 5 seconds at some points, so it was difficult for the people answering to keep up). Also, some people complained of not having audio, or the video being way behind the audio, or video not even showing up. Thankfully, our connection was good enough to never skip a beat. Sure, the presentation probably only ran at a few frames per second, but I don't think that was much of a hinderance. Not once did our audio or video cut out and everything seemed to synched up really well. Good job MM!
2) Seeing the demo of the WebService component and the fact that when you set the link to the WSDL, the Flash IDE automatically hit the URL and displayed the available methods and parameters. I know that other software dev. IDEs already do that but still, I thought it was cool.
1) The people! We had somewhere in the mid 80's in attendance (not bad for a smallish town in the frozen north :), and it was standing room only. It was really awesome to see so many familiar faces (former students, workmates, classmates) and to meet some new faces as well. Seems that Edmonton has a thriving Flash developer base, and hopefully we can continue to tap into that in future meetings.
Other than that, the presentations were fairly "surfacy", which is fair I guess, since there was a lot of stuff to cover and a wide range of skill levels represented in the audiences.
If MM is listening...I think I can speak for everyone in attendance in Edmonton when I say that we REALLY hope that you will continue to do more of these events in the near future. It would really be great to have presentations that focused on a specific product and went into more detail with the time given.
Good show MM!
Posted by philter at September 4, 2003 01:19 PMComments Disabled